Publishing on publishing: Streams in the literature

European Business Review

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 401-420

  Polonsky, Michael Jay ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Generation and dissemination of information; Marketing information; Publishing; Serials

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849128772     PISSN: 0955534X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09555340810897934     Document Type: Article

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